Let’s Stay in Bed All Day

My life philosophy, if I have one, is that staying in bed for as long as possible is almost always the correct decision. Let’s Stay in Bed All Day is the title of a photo series shot in a London apartment by photographer Nirish Shakya, and I’ve rarely encountered a creative project I agreed with more fundamentally.

My last trip to London was longer ago than I’d planned. For a stretch I made it there at least once a year—partly for the galleries and record shops, partly to shake off whatever provincial numbness had accumulated from being in Germany too long. Berlin is brilliant but it knows it. Hamburg is handsome and self-contained. Neither of them does what London does to your nervous system after forty-eight hours. It floods you.

Leonie Fabienne, a Swiss hairdresser whose Instagram traces an ongoing love affair with coffee, tea, and the next flight out, was in London recently for considerably better reasons than mine. She linked up with Shakya and stylist Sophia Katyea Andrews and produced the series for C-Heads Magazine—intimate and unhurried, with the specific quality of light that makes a bed in a strange apartment feel like the only sensible place to be.

Leonie’s bio lists her interests as coffee, tea, and travel, but she’s also on record about her love of sleep, which makes the whole project feel almost autobiographical. That’s a personality type I understand completely.

Looking at this now, I’m trying to decide whether to book a flight to London or just recommit to my current arrangement with the duvet. Possibly both. London has beds. And if I’m extremely lucky, one of them might contain Leonie Fabienne.